A book of simples.

Date:
[1908]
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Credit: A book of simples. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cinnamon groflly beaten half an ounce 2 nutmegs 3 pennyworth of englifh faffron 2 orange peels 4 ounces of blew figs Steep them in Sack enough to cover them, and as you add flowers add Sack when you have gotten them all together diftill them in a cold ftill & cover them in the ftill with Sack & when all is drawn off you muft put into your water before you ufe it 6 ounces of white Sugar Candie, it muft be ftilled with a foft fire or your water will be y® fmaller it is good for any heavinefs of fpirits & may be given to weomen in travell. 192. The Purge for Winde, Take a Dram of rubarbe and half as much Sena (if eafy to worke) otherwife as much of the one as the other half a fpoonfull of fweet fennell feed the length of one little finger in liquorifh tofed abroad a pint of white wine as much water infufe it altogether & take half a pint & dilTolve in it an ounce of manna, & drink it when you have ftrain’d it from the dregs, drink a fmall half pint & when it Grumbles about half an hour after take another half pint before you take any polTet drink when it works you may drink poflet as with other phifick & eat chick or hen for dinner if you like Sirrop of rofes better you may ex- change the manna for it and when you expedl wormes change y® fennell feeds for worme feed keep warme in the taking. 193. A purge for Spleen and Winde. Take a quart of Sider put to it 2 ounces of the roots of pollipodiume of the oake, one ounce of feynae, one ounce of anyfeeds let all thefe boyle gently together till half be confumed then ftrain it well out put to a pint a pound of fugar then put into a thin bag thefe fpices one lliced nutmeg the like quantity of cloves and mace & a lefs quantity of mace &